If you are willing to forfeit stolen bases you can play Ted Williams, or any hitter at catcher and give up an average of one passed ball per game and the error rate will be on par with any other average catcher.

I definitely agree with contrarian on both points - some of the low-PA catchers seem to have unreasonably high prices per PA. You could argue that this actually makes sense since some owners would bring such catchers in for 3 defensive innings a game with 1 PA. I certainly wouldn't buy that...

But there are definitely some very good arms out there for what I would consider to be reasonable prices. '74 Tenace and '75 Carter are both under $4 million for full seasons of what are I believe to be 45% and 49% CS rates, respectively. Tenace hit .211 but with a lot of walks and some power; Carter is a solid all-around hitter with a few fewer PAs. Do they cost more than many other hitters with their offensive stats? Of course. But the catcher's arm is by far the most important defensive stat on a team. Some teams' offenses are almost totally shut down by a catcher with a great arm. You should have to pay for that arm.

it probably cut down how many owners drafted an average arm catcher with a A+ backup catcher solely to match up with speed teams. now i can see sb's being more of a factor than they were before the update.

With the recent salary update, we adjusted many pieces of the formula. One piece included addressing players that excelled in one category but were lousy in others. Think pinch runners, strong defensive catchers, excellent pinch-hitters, etc. These were the types of players being used over and over again because of their obvious "cookie" strength.

That's why you're seeing some of the best armed, weak hitting catchers increase in price. Their new salary is more inline with their value in the sim.

While their $/PA is higher then some other players, their salary remains much lower.

Wooten is a much better offensive player, and appears to be at least as good defensively as Borders. Wooten has more than 4x the number of PA. Yet Wooten's salary is only $360K more than Borders.

Borders's $/PA = $20,628Wooten's $/PA = $6,459

Borders costs more than 3x per PA than Wooten. If Borders's salary is "more inline with his value in the SIM" then why doesn't Wooten cost $4.5M or so? It seems like Wooten is an incredible bargain by comparison.

and yet how do we explain that the 1975 Gary Carter is at $3,936,483 with his A+ arm and .49 RL CS%? He weighs in at $6672 per PA and can stroke it on the offense. Maybe the A+ arm is worth a set flat amount. Never thought of that before.

Guys like the '75 Carter, the '73 Fosse, the '82 Boone, '64 Rodgers, '79 Newman, '74 Tenace, and '67 Casanova would all seem to be very attractive values at their under $7000 $/PA coupled with thie 45% or better CS%. Carter, Newman, Tenace, and to a degree Casanova have good power. Carter and Casanova have decent normalized AVGs and plugged deep in a line up won't tire all too much.